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#22
Originally Posted by ysss View Post
The main problem here is that your intended document was not designed to be displayed in small screens in the first place. If it was, then it should support reflow-able text.

To take this issue to the extreme, imagine trying to read a plain 'ol newspaper rendered as a PDF. You can ask for a 2560x2048 3.5" screen (or whatever) to be able to render the whole width of the content but you'll still end up finding the bottleneck elsewhere (your eyes).
If you'd like to reform the entire scientific publishing establishment, be my guest. Or perhaps you could code a PDF reflower. Please note that it must reflow scanned articles as well; just because a paper was from the 1960s, doesn't meant that it's useless!

Sadly, the screen is the easier thing to fix IMHO.
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